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Chilodus punctatus Müller & Troschel, 1844

Spotted headstander
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Characiformes (Characins) > Chilodontidae (Headstanders)
Etymology: Chilodus: Greek, cheilos = lip + Greek, odous = teeth (Ref. 45335).
More on authors: Müller & Troschel.

Issue
Redescription by Isbrücker & Nijssen (1988).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; pelagic; pH range: 6.0 - 7.0; dH range: ? - 10. Tropical; 24°C - 28°C (Ref. 1672)

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South America: Amazon River basin, Apeú River, Pará State, Guyana, Suriname, and western Orinoco River basin.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 18.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 111518); max. published weight: 70.50 g (Ref. 111518)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Vari, Richard P. | Collaborators

Vari, R.P. and S.J. Raredon, 2003. Chilodontidae (Headstanders). p. 85-86. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil. (Ref. 37477)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 21 October 2020

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Fisheries: commercial; aquarium: commercial
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AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: genus, species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GenBank: genome, nucleotide | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | MitoFish | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | Public aquariums | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go, Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoobank | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5664   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01202 (0.00462 - 0.03130), b=3.01 (2.79 - 3.23), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  2.8   ±0.26 se; based on food items.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Unknown.